Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Widener Library E8805 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Harry Elkins Widener
Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
E49383 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Harry Elkins Widener | Statement: [Widener Library, namedAfter, Harry Elkins Widener]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Elkins Widener
Context triple: [Widener Library, namedAfter, Harry Elkins Widener]
  • A. Paul Mellon
    Paul Mellon was an American philanthropist, art collector, and heir to the Mellon banking fortune who became one of the 20th century’s most influential patrons of the arts and education.
  • B. Andrew W. Mellon
    Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
  • C. Henry Lee Higginson
    Henry Lee Higginson was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding and financially supporting the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
  • D. Walter A. Brown
    Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
  • E. George Palmer Putnam
    George Palmer Putnam was a prominent 19th-century American publisher and bookseller who played a key role in shaping the U.S. literary and cultural landscape.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Harry Elkins Widener
Triple: [Widener Library, namedAfter, Harry Elkins Widener]
Generated description
Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Elkins Widener
Target entity description: Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
  • A. Paul Mellon
    Paul Mellon was an American philanthropist, art collector, and heir to the Mellon banking fortune who became one of the 20th century’s most influential patrons of the arts and education.
  • B. Andrew W. Mellon
    Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
  • C. Henry Lee Higginson
    Henry Lee Higginson was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding and financially supporting the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
  • D. Walter A. Brown
    Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
  • E. George Palmer Putnam
    George Palmer Putnam was a prominent 19th-century American publisher and bookseller who played a key role in shaping the U.S. literary and cultural landscape.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec5828d881909e8810061c02480c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a403500d048190874ff9e3078d86fe completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4041ef2d8819086370c7f55887ae5 completed March 1, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4048229bc8190afe728fce60b8eac completed March 1, 2026, 9:18 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.